English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2002
Manga release statistics for 2002: new English volumes by month and by publisher, and how long a volume takes to come from Japan to English. Computed from Mangainfo's catalog of English editions.
Updated .
34
new English manga volumes in 2002
- new English volumes
- 34
- publishers
- 3
- median from Japan to English
- 61 months
- series new to English
- 5
Mangainfo counts 34 new English manga volumes released in 2002. They belong to 11 series from 3 publishers. 2001 had 9. That is 25 more, a rise of 277.8%.
Tokyopop released the most: 19 volumes, or 55.9% of the year. VIZ Media followed with 13 and Dark Horse with 2.
February was the busiest month with 4 volumes. Neon Genesis Evangelion had the most volumes in one month: 2 in August.
A volume took a median of 61 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 65.9 months. Both figures cover the 20 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. Tokyopop was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 57 months. VIZ Media took the longest at 66 months. Cardcaptor Sakura moved fastest: a median of 56 months over 2 volumes. X had the longest wait: a median of 93.5 months.
5 series got their first English edition in 2002. Among them are Gyo, Vagabond and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
New English manga volumes per month, 2002
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | Released |
| February | 4 | Released |
| March | 0 | Released |
| April | 1 | Released |
| May | 1 | Released |
| June | 2 | Released |
| July | 2 | Released |
| August | 4 | Released |
| September | 1 | Released |
| October | 1 | Released |
| November | 2 | Released |
| December | 2 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2002">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2002</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2002
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tokyopop | 19 | 55.9% |
| VIZ Media | 13 | 38.2% |
| Dark Horse | 2 | 5.9% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2002">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2002</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2002
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyopop | 57 months | 53.3 months | 9 |
| VIZ Media | 66 months | 76 months | 9 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2002">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2002</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Cardcaptor Sakura | 56 months | 2 |
| GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka | 57.5 months | 6 |
| Banana Fish | 62.5 months | 2 |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | 73 months | 3 |
| Lone Wolf and Cub | 77 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| X | 93.5 months | 2 |
| Lone Wolf and Cub | 77 months | 2 |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | 73 months | 3 |
| Banana Fish | 62.5 months | 2 |
| GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka | 57.5 months | 6 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Gyo | VIZ Media | |
| Vagabond | VIZ Media | |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | VIZ Media | |
| Paradise Kiss | Tokyopop | |
| X | VIZ Media |
From the license tracker for 2002.
Finished in English
No series finished in English in 2002.
Month by month
Methodology
The report counts Japanese manga volumes in English. A volume counts once, in the month of its first English edition from a manga publisher. Later editions of the same volume, such as an ebook after the print book or an omnibus, do not count again. Library rebinds and distributors do not count as publishers. A volume dated only to a year counts in the year but in no month.
The time from Japan to English is counted in calendar months, from the month of the Japanese release to the month of the first English edition. Only volumes whose dates are known at least to the month on both sides count. That keeps a guessed day out of the figures. A volume whose English date comes before its Japanese date is left out as a data error. In 2002 that left out 14 volumes without a date to the month, 0 without a Japanese date and 0 with English first. A publisher needs 5 such volumes for its own figure, and a series 2.
The data is Mangainfo's catalog: the series with a page on Mangainfo, without adult series. It is large but not complete, so older years and small publishers are undercounted. English edition data comes largely from ISBNdb. Japanese dates come from the National Diet Library. "Started in English" uses the license tracker. "Finished in English" is a series finished in Japan whose every volume is out in English, with the last one out in 2002. The figures are computed again every day, so they change as the catalog grows.
Use and cite
The figures and charts are free to use with credit: "Source: Mangainfo" and a link to this page. The rows behind them are in the open dataset under CC BY 4.0. The figures are also at /api/v1/report/2002.
Mangainfo. (2002). English Manga Report 2002. https://mangainfo.com/report/2002